Education: At Lawrenceville

For thousands & thousands of U. S. novel readers Lawrenceville is still
the harum-scarum little preparatory school of the 1890's about which
Alumnus Owen Johnson wrote in The Varmint and Tin Tennessee Shad.
Unforgettable are sue) redoubtable characters as Dink Stover Doc Mcnooder,
The Prodigious Hickey Flash Condit, Turkey Reiter, The Triumphant
Eggheada lusty lot, forever up to highjinks, forever bedevilling
their masters.

They got sick in great smoking contest, behind the bushes, or from eating
the Welsh rarebit which the Tennessee Shad concocted of cheese and
witch-hazel. They invented a Goldbergian "Sleep...